Modern Ready Tied !

[Carpbell3]

So who's owning up to buying the occasional spinner rig or pack of loops ( i really do rate loops). Ready rigs today are hard to beat in terms of neat and tidy and value for money, a pack of spinners and a bit of line is cheaper for most people in the short run than buying all the bits for various rigs.

Trying some of the Guru ones they look good in sizes from 12 to 16, got hair rigs on the 12 and a bait band on the 14 for on the bottom, a 16 waggler band rig and a 16 maggot corn waggler rig, eight in a pack at a few quid each 

I'm not tying size 10 to 16 hooks on fine nylon to the same standard as the ready rigs especially the tiny hair rigs all lined up nicely so I'm getting ready tied ⛔

[Carpbell3]

Forgot to say, they are nice and long some are two foot others a metre so you can adjust the length or add a micro swivel.

[yonny]

I couldn't bring myself to use a ready tied rig. Hooks aint sharp enough for my liking but more to the point, imagine losing a special one if the knot went.... you'd never forgive yourself.

[kevtaylor]

I love tying my own rigs, the attention to detail of getting it just right, the little adjustments you make to length and pop-up height for instance - it's all using the grey matter.

I will always remember sitting in my bivvy all day trying to work out why my non tangle rigs were suddenly tangling every cast, chucking fast and low under pylons, did my head in completely.  That day I came up with huge loops over half the length of the boom effectively lengthening the anti tangle sleeves properties if you like, and giving you a set place to mould the rig putty stopping that ever slipping.  By the end of that day I'd come up with better anti tangle properties and more importantly realised that if I tied the hook end section almost in reverse order I had total control of how much stripped braid was left exposed, instead of ending up with whatever you got after tightening the knot.  So I tie the hair last if that makes any sense at all - hard to put in words.  So one problem ended up improving all elements of the rig I'd been tying for years and years. 

I thought about tying rigs many years ago for those who struggled to do it themselves, like a complete custom set-up, was a good idea, couldn't be arsed in the end lol  same as all my other great ideas 🙃🤣 

[elmoputney]

I have used the gemini booms and quite like them, cost its always a factor for me though could spend a fortune on them rather than hooklink and I do prefer to tie my own as you can change the length, material or anything else. As I get older rigs do seem tougher to tie but will keep going til I can't do it anymore 😂

[framey]

4 hours ago, yonny said:

I couldn't bring myself to use a ready tied rig. Hooks aint sharp enough for my liking but more to the point, imagine losing a special one if the knot went.... you'd never forgive yourself.

Totally agree

won’t even let my best mate tie a knot..

Edited 4 hours ago by framey

[Carpbell3]

Chods everyone must of bought a pack of chods at some point they are just right for hinge rigs.

[kevtaylor]

40 minutes ago, Carpbell3 said:

Chods everyone must of bought a pack of chods at some point they are just right for hinge rigs.

Never ever bought a ready tied, I've been using a stiff end section multi rig for the hinge rig, the 2 doubled over strands hold the hook well and you can change hook as and when.  A little more faffy to put the required bend in with 2 strands but finished rig looks just as good IMO.

Some of the pro anglers use pre-tied chods so must be OK - but it's hardly a technically difficult one to tie anyway. 👍

Edited 2 hours ago by kevtaylor

[salokcinnodrog]

I have never bought a ready tied rig, other than hooks to nylon for smaller species, although mates and I have 'pinched' each other's rigs. 

There is a 'but' in there; at Nazeing I pinched one of Big Daves rigs after I had landed a fish and for some reason hadn't got another tied up. I cast it to where I had caught from, and within minutes started getting a series of bleeps on the buzzer which then stopped. Around 4 in the afternoon every day I would reel in, check hook and bait and recast, so at 4 I reeled in, replaced the rig with one of my own, freshly tied and recast the same bait out. Within minutes I had a take and landed a decent fish. When I got home I did a hook point comparison of my Gardner Muggas, Gamskatsu curve, whatever the number was and the Korda Kurv's Dave was using, by attempting to lift a 3oz inline lead off the desk with the hookpoint on the ball of my thumb. The Gardner and Gamakatsu hooks were sharp enough to draw blood without the full weight of the lead. The Kurv, I could lift the lead off the desk! 

Not long after Korda released their 'hand sharpened' hooks...

I prefer to play around with my rigs, working on thoughts and theories in my head, and the experimentations and experiences in the water. 

I said years ago I don't think of Rig Mechanics of say the KD rig, Spinner rig or even the Chod rig as a rig that passes the palm or thumb test may still be a blank rig but the basic rig that is put in the right situation will catch.

 

[jules007]

I will fess up i am buying ready tied choddy rigs as i do struggle to make chod hook links they are sharp and decent knots but i do all my other rigs myself